[PARENTING] [SOCIOLOGY] [CLEVELAND] Parents Without Partners: Cleveland-West chapter monthly journal (54 issues)

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54 issues, all measuring about 7" x 8.5". Various pagination, but mostly ca. 35-40pp., illustrated. All issues in very good or better condition; some with a few pen/pencil notations, but mostly quite clean. Large group of periodicals, mostly complete within the run of 1981-1986, with some issues lacking. Parents Without Partners is a national support group for parents who have lost their parenting partner, either through divorce, death, separation, or other means. Founded in New York in 1957, the organization's website describes its original founding as rooted in addressing the stigma of divorce, and the social costs that came along with it (esecially half a century ago). This Cleveland chapter (one of several just in the Cleveland area!) was quite sizeable, and produced a monthly newsletter filled with photocopied homemade advertisements for events, photographs of recent events and engagements, and articles encouraging members to better their lives through the organization. The frontmatter of each issue includes a mission statement from the organization, which reads in part, "The single parent in our society is isolated to some degree. The difficulties for providing both for ourselves and our children a reasonable equivalent of normal family life are increased by that isolation.[etc.]". Though the group has a national presence, most of the newsletters have a local focus. We do not locate any issues of this periodical in any libraries at the time of listing. Taken altogether, a richly detailed primary source portrait of the concerns of single parents during the 1980s. N° de ref. del artículo 6020

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